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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Critical
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
MDBF-297 was created to give users a reliable stable url for repos. This way broken mirrors don't become a user problem to fix. These should be the primary presented URLs provided on https://mariadb.org/download/?t=repo-config.
These shouldn't be included as an untested inclusion like the other mirror list item (MDBF-416).
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This wasn't discussed at the staff meeting. Andreia to arrange a meeting with Faustin and Daniel to discuss.
To activate this, we need to make sure that mirror.mariadb.org is not a SPOF (which is the case ATM).
Options are :
- RRDNS with a clone (but it would increase load on our mirrors because of more scan);
- High-availability using redis-sentinel, see https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits.
This issue is a bit more complex. Currently we suggest the users the closest mirror to them. deb.mariadb.org and rpm.mariadb.org use only the mirrors that can be verified using Rsync and FTP however a lot of our mirrors don't have these enabled. Therefore we would reduce the list of mirrors we offer the users. I am afraid some people will have difficulty in downloading the files because of low speeds or perhaps issue with connection.
I suggest this issue be discussed in Finland at the Staff Meeting because I don't have a good solution for this.
I have also spoken with Faustin about this and again we decided to bring it up at the staff meeting.